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July 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Center for Asian American Media has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): rule: '\bfacebook\.com' (link(s): http://www.facebook.com/pages/San-Francisco-International-Asian-American-Film-Festival/14889340430/) .

If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! XLinkBot (talk) 22:08, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Asian american media

A tag has been placed on Asian american media, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as the Wikipedia:Business' FAQ for more information.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you. Excirial ^{(Talk,Contribs)} 18:49, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

August 2008

Please do not add copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to Center for Asian American Media. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Toddst1 (talk) 18:53, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Center for Asian American Media. While objective prose about products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Thank you. Toddst1 (talk) 19:10, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Your question

See reply at Wikipedia:Editor_assistance/Requests#Center_for_Asian_American_Media_article_help Toddst1 (talk) 19:21, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Center for asian american media

A tag has been placed on Center for asian american media requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you. Excirial ^{(Talk,Contribs)} 20:19, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

About "Conflict of Interest"

Thanks for being honest about who you represent! Wikipedia has guidelines to help editors who may have a conflict of interest (COI) with the articles they're editing. You'll find them at WP:COI. The goal is not to drive you off - and I apologise in advance if any editor makes you feel unwelcome here - but to ensure that Wikipedia articles are written from a neutral point of view (see WP:NPOV for more on that). If you have any specific questions about COI, you can also post at the COI noticeboard WP:COIN, and for any other question, you can contact me at my Talk page (the link's in my signature). Regards, SHEFFIELDSTEEL^TALK 20:34, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your help. I do not have any intentions at all of self promotion of the organization and I apologize if the editorial reflected this. I fully intend to abide by COI guidelines. I do need help in writing about the organization without having a bias. Or, I can always leave my own disclaimer and say that I am associated with the organization. Thank you and please advise. CAAMwiki (talk) 20:43, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

The best advice is to not edit things that you are associated with as it's very difficult to maintain a neutral point-of-view. Toddst1 (talk) 21:19, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

I agree with Toddst1; however, assuming that you are going to write on this subject, I recommend that you read Wikipedia:Neutral Point of View, especially the sections titled "A simple formulation" (shortcut:WP:ASF) and "Attributing and substantiating biased statements" (shortcut:WP:SUBSTANTIATE) both of which will help to (a) ensure neutrality and (b) satisfy our verifiability policy (which says, essentially, that Wikipedia content has to come from reliable sources). I can't stress this point enough: adding material from independent sources is the best way to prevent your article from being deleted. SHEFFIELDSTEEL^TALK 22:46, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your help Sheffield. I would like to know how I could go about existing in some form on wikipedia. Would you be able to help me structure at least one or two sentences describing The Center for Asian American Media in a neutral way. For example would "The Center for Asian American Media (formerly NAATA) was created in 1980. Its mission is to support Asian American Media. It is also the host of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival."

Would something as basic as this be able to live on wikipedia? Please advise.

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